Fairly old news but I found a bumper sticker on a car with the above slogan. Here’s an article on how it came around – and how they got fined: SYDNEY (AFP) — An Australian hire firm which painted “Save a Whale–Harpoon a Jap” on the side of one its camping vans was accused by a senior politician Thursday of racism and risking a tourist backlash. Queensland state Premier Anna Bligh said she was concerned that Japanese tourists should feel welcome in the state. Money brought in by Japanese visitors is an important part of Australia’s tourism earnings, despite...

Federal Opposition backbencher Wilson Tuckey has again emailed all his colleagues attacking his leader Malcolm Turnbull over emissions trading. An opinion poll today shows the Liberal leader has recorded his worst performance in a Newspoll as the alternative prime minister, dropping three points to 16 per cent. But the poll also shows 45 per cent of people support Australia waiting to introduce an emissions trading scheme until after the Copenhagen climate change talks, whereas 41 per cent say it should bring in the scheme now. Mr Tuckey says there is a message in that for Mr Turnbull, who has...

Ok, so many of you MAY or may not have seen the ad on Aussie TV’s blabbering on about how cars and something else is bad about our planet, and then they say cows are bad too (methane). Then there’s about 5 seconds saying “you can help reduce it by using green energy, planting trees…” Then after that they say “Go veg, be green, save our planet.” And where did that come from? And why should I stop eating my natural source of vitamins and minerals? Ok, so there’s two sides of the argument, lets start with the vegetarian (green planet) side of it: Cows...